Looking for concerts, plays, art shows and movies in the Bay Area this fall?

Let KQED Arts & Culture’s trusted recommendations be your guide. While the world becomes ever more bombarded with advertising, algorithms and AI, we’re out at events and performances every single day to give you life pro tips, human to human, on what’s worth your time.

So base your plans on experience and discerning taste instead of a janky beta-tested chatbot, and explore our guides to fall arts in the Bay Area.

Shaboozey performing at Outside Lands in 2024. The singer plays a free show at San Francisco’s Civic Center on Sept. 13. (Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)

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Nastia Voynovskaya has covered music for more than a decade, spanning humid underground parties to huge outdoor co

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